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Anglo Schools International Services (ASIS), a federation of 14 of Britain's leading boarding schools, has been stepping up its efforts to recruit international students for British boarding schools and universities. With a focus on India, it is offering a scholarship programme of over Rs 9 crore to attract more students and has recently tied up with Credila Financial Services , a subsidiary of HDFC , to provide loans to parents wanting to send their children to its schools. The federation is headed by David Boddy , principal partner, ASIS.

After various stringent measures on immigration which have been very unpopular in India, the UK government has finally announced some changes last week which come as a breather. These will likely help the UK regain ground as an international higher education destination among Indian students by allowing them to take up corporate internships after completing their degree. Further, the rules have also been eased for graduates to take up skilled jobs. Those on graduate entrepreneur visas will now be able to switch to a skilled workers' visa more easily.

LONDON: Britain's move to abolish the visa that allows Indian and other non-EU students to take up employment in the UK for two years after the completion of their courses is likely to reduce the number of Indians coming here for MBA degrees, an industry body has said. The London-based Association of MBAs, which accredits business management courses in 70 countries, including the UK, said the proposed move was of 'significant concern', and would restrict enrolment of international students from India and elsewhere.

NEW DELHI: International students pursuing higher studies in Canada will now be able to obtain a work permit without producing a job offer letter. Canada has announced changes to work permits for international students who graduate from eligible programs at certain Canadian post-secondary institutes. International students would be able to obtain open work permit under the Post-Graduation Work Permit Program with no restrictions on the type of employment and no requirement for a job offer.

NEW DELHI: The government today kick-started the Bal Swachhta Mission as part of Children's Day celebrations and also launched the 'Udaan' programme for girls, which seeks to prepare them for the IIT-JEE. Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani launched the Bal Swachhta Mission at the National Bal Bhavan in the presence of hundreds of schoolchildren. Children's Day is celebrated every year on the occasion of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's birth anniversary on Nov. 14. The initiative aims to ensure cleanliness at schools by promoting clean food, clean self, clean drinking water and clean toilets.

TOKYO: Zack Wood, a 25-year-old graduate of Stanford, was looking to prepare himself for a career in animation, design and computer graphics. To that end, he, like many other Americans, turned to studying manga, Japan's popular comic form. And as Japanese universities work harder to attract students to fill their classrooms while the country's birth rate declines, more are offering degrees in manga and animation. "I like it here because you get totally immersed in the skill training" of manga and animation, said Wood, who is studying at Kyoto Seika University.

NEW DELHI: The number of Indian students enrolled in the US colleges and universities fell for the first time in five years in academic year 2010-11, according to a US report. Indian students, the second largest international cohort in the US, decreased by 1% to 104,000 while the Chinese grew to 158,000, or nearly 22% of the total international student population, the Open Doors report said. International students at US colleges and universities rose 5% to 723,277.

LONDON: Leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul has hit out at Britain's restrictive student visa policy, a day after Prime Minister David Cameron said there was no limit on the number of Indian students coming to his country. Delivering the inaugural India Link Lecture here on 'Indo-British Relations - The Way Forward', Lord Paul said, "The top students in our key recruiting nations are choosing to attend universities in Canada, Australia and the US. " "The UK is now seen as an unfriendly place for international students and we are fast losing our place in the international market," he said.

NEW DELHI: The skills that are essential for the Australian economy in the long term are available in India, and the Australian government is looking to tap the young Indian base in a big way in the coming years. The Australian minister for immigration and citizenship Chris Evans, who is in New Delhi, in the wake of widespread violent attacks against Indian students in Australia, told ET that in view of the ageing workforce in Australia, the government was increasingly looking to attract Indian IT, engineering and medical professionals as permanent residents under the skilled stream migration programme (SSMP)

CHENNAI: With a view to helping aspirants acquire skills in tune with corporate requirements, Indo-German Training Centre (IGTC), a management institute of the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, will be offering a "practice-oriented" business administration course. "This 18-month full-time Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration programme has been designed based on the German dual system of higher education, which is a practice-oriented education which alternates study in the classroom with comprehensive on-the-job topic-linked training in participating companies," T R Gopalan, Regional Director - Chennai, Indo-German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC)